A Guest Blog by Matthew Holt
Writing in his blog in the NY Times, Uwe Reinhardt sets out three overreaching goals of health reform:

Financial barriers should not stand between Americans and preventive or acute health care that they sincerely believe will address concerns over a troubling medical condition, in a timely manner, before that condition grows [...]

A Registered Nurse’s Tips to Stay Safe in a Hospital
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
A hospital can be extremely frightening and overwhelming.
Hospitals generally are loud, cold, and sterile mazes of chaos. Unfortunately medical errors happen and it’s estimated that nearly 100,000 people die of medical errors each year.
According to the CDC, “In American hospitals [...]

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
I asked Daniel Sands, MD, MPH, Director of Medical Informatics at Cisco IBSG and a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a few questions about twitter.
1.  What value does tweeting health info bring to the public?
By following tweets from health information sources that they trust, people can [...]